Positing an essencelessness rather than merely negating inherent identity creates a subtle linguistic and analytic barrier to finding the correct understanding.

Positing classical-era astronomers ' use of Babylonian eclipse records mostly from the 13th century BC provides a feasible and mathematically consistent The concept that an eclipsing body caused these luminosity variations was introduced by John Goodricke in 1783.

Positing the need for exobiologists who will appreciate the differences between the inhabitants of other planets and ourselves, it stresses the importance of the non-military in the exploration of other cultures.

Positing punk rock as a transhistorical cultural phenomenon, Marcus examined philosophical connections between entities as diverse as medieval heretics, Dada, the Situationists, and the Sex Pistols.

Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the animal world in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, a great share of prior understanding related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, has been revolutionized.

This image understanding can be seen as the disentangling of symbolic information from image data using models constructed with the aid of geometry, physics, statistics, and learning theory.

The person-centered approach, his own unique approach to understanding personality and human relationships, found wide application in various domains such as psychotherapy and counseling ( client-centered therapy ), education ( student-centered learning ), organizations, and other group settings.

Based on the works of Jung, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Keirsey Temperament Sorter focused on understanding how people's personality affects the way they interact personally, and how this affects the way individuals respond to each other within the learning environment.

Modern education reforms are increasingly driven by a growing understanding of what works in education and how to go about successfully improving teaching and learning in schools.

Parker was opposed to rote learning, believing that there was no value in knowledge without understanding.

Vives emphasized the importance of understanding individual differences of the students and suggested practice as an important tool for learning.

As learning would be affected by prior knowledge and understanding, he needed something that could be easily memorized but which had no prior cognitive associations.

The process starts with learning what the norms are, and then the individual goes through a process of understanding why they are of value or why they make sense, until finally they accept the norm as their own viewpoint.

Training can also cover situational awareness to develop an understanding of one's surroundings, learning to understand the psychology of a street confrontation, and identifying potential threats before an attack occurs.

One theory deals with whether learning should take place as a building of concepts toward an overall idea, or the understanding of the overall idea with the details filled in later.

As our understanding of the brain and learning develop we should expect that the educational theory debate will gradually be replaced by a neuroscience-based theory of learning.

Manatees are capable of understanding discrimination tasks, and show signs of complex associated learning and advanced long term memory.

To gain this understanding, neuroscientists strive to make a link between observed biological processes ( data ), biologically plausible mechanisms for neural processing and learning ( biological neural network models ) and theory ( statistical learning theory and information theory ).

* Public Relations Institute of New Zealand Institute for the public relations profession in New Zealand, advancing learning, promoting professional development and working towards a greater understanding of public relations in the wider community.

A preeminent sleep researcher, Dr. Stickgold has dedicated his life to understanding the relationship between sleep and learning.

Similar ideas are found in learning theories that developed from the same fundamental concepts, emphasizing how understanding results from knowing concepts both in part and as a whole.

" They have ordained that no man shall look on the Scripture, until he be noselled in heathen learning eight or nine years and armed with false principles, with which he is clean shut out of the understanding of the Scripture.

The above-referenced statements by the Vatican's Commission for Interreligious Relations with the Jews, as well as other developments, including the establishment of more than two dozen centers for Christian-Jewish understanding at Catholic institutions of higher learning in the United States along with the participation by rabbis in seminarian formation training, demonstrate how the church has embraced Nostra Aetate.

* In 2009, Orthodox Rabbi Avi Weiss founded Yeshivat Maharat, a school which " is dedicated to giving Orthodox women proficiency in learning and teaching Talmud, understanding Jewish law and its application to everyday life as well as the other tools necessary to be Jewish communal leaders.

The children that saw the ghost machine learned the task better than the others, suggesting that understanding a process, rather than sheer imitation, is important to successful observational learning.

In using this approach, HPSR offers insight in to health systems by generating a complex understanding of context in order to enhance health policy learning.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

Many will add that we may find our enjoyment heightened by our understanding.

This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

Particularly when based upon a single dominant party, governments may respond to such a situation by claiming a monopoly of understanding about the national interest.

And although the universe may forever defy understanding, it might even now be finding its match in the imagination of man.

Analyses of large human concentrations in big cities, in multi-disciplinar studies by Ronald Daus, show how new methods may be applied to the understanding of man living in a global world and how it was caused by the action of extra-European nations, so high-lighting the role of Ethics in modern anthropology.

This view acknowledges that there may be valid preteristic connections ( e. g. the seven hills = Rome ) but the full understanding comes through an idealistic-historicism ( but without necessarily seeing the Roman Catholic Church as the antichrist ).

The experiment is the centerpiece of Searle's Chinese room argument which holds that a program cannot give a computer a " mind ", " understanding " or " consciousness ", regardless of how intelligently it may make it behave.

' We may take this literally, understanding that by a purely mechanical process one which could be carried out by a machine.

Judaism is more focused on the practicalities of understanding how one may live a sacred life in the world according to God's will, rather than a hope of a future one.

The method does not have to be known at compile time, the understanding being that the required functionality may be available or may not, based on the user's preferences.

When receiving diplomats — who formally represent the sovereign — the receiving head of state grants certain privileges and immunities to ensure they may effectively carry out their duties, on the understanding that these are provided on a reciprocal basis.

By using Taylor series approximations of the maps and an understanding of the differences that may be eliminated by a change of coordinates, it is possible to catalog the bifurcations of dynamical systems.

Such approaches may be based in scientific fields such as evolutionary psychology or sociobiology, with a focus on understanding and explaining observed ethical preferences and choices.

Christian denominations differ in their understanding of whether they may receive the Eucharist with those with whom they are not in full communion.

Entente, meaning a diplomatic " understanding ", may refer to a number of agreements:

) It may well symbolise his own understanding of the historical importance and meaning of his rule and of the early gaining of the Imperial title.

Though evidence suggests Heart of Darkness may be pessimistic, Joseph Conrad ’ s Darwinian world view can counter this understanding.

" Eastern Orthodoxy further teaches that " a clear understanding of the importance of Icons " was part of the church from its very beginning, and has never changed, although explanations of their importance may have developed over time.

This decision may reflect a realpolitik understanding of the threat Japan faces from a rapidly modernizing China, which from its continued and indeed growing pattern of anti-Japanese demonstrations reveals the belief that old historical scores remain unsettled.

Upon accepting the book for publication Santillana said, " It is my understanding that, fictional as the material may sound, it is straight autobiography.

If the generator tool complains about some parts of your grammar, you may need some understanding of states and the difference between LR and LALR in order to tweak your grammar into an acceptable form.

These people can usually normally perform daily activities such as driving according to signs and navigating according to a map, but will often take a wrong turn when told to turn left or right and may have difficulties performing actions that require precise understanding of directional commands, such as ballroom dancing.